The trust designed the Mission projects to identify patients on GP registers at risk of asthma, and then chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), so they could receive swift community-based assessment.

Results from the asthma scheme included a 67 per cent cut in emergency department visits, while the follow-up COPD project slashed such visits by 97 per cent in month five.

Judges hailed the “patient-focused” scheme.

Access links to AHSNs with a respiratory focus, including Wessex, as well as resources and information about NHS innovation programmes on the Respiratory Futures Innovation portal.